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The title of “Much Apu About Something,” about Apu’s nephew Jamshed (or Jay, as he prefers) turning the Kwik-E-Mart into a health food store, might reference a beloved episode about Apu’s dignity in ...

The Simpsons go to Paris! Wait, have they been to Paris before? [Checking.] Nope—just Bart*. All the way back in season one, when he was pawned off on the French as an exile/exchange student and fell ...

Around the turn of the current century, the phrase "jump the shark" began to catch on. The term enjoyed a brief run as a trendy expression indicating the point in the history of a popular TV series ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Interestingly, though, if you take a look at my Simpsons DVD collection, it ends rather abruptly at season 8. Hardly a coincidence, the ...

Even if “The Simpsons” weren’t at the top of its game after 18 seasons as television’s most intelligent, culturally aware comedy, “The Simpsons Movie” would have to be a disaster of “Ishtar”-like ...

Gregory Lawrence (aka Greg Smith) is a writer, director, performer, songwriter, and comedian. He's an associate editor for Collider and has written for Shudder, CBS, Paste Magazine, Guff, Smosh, Obsev ...